Funeral Rites for COVID Zero
It was such a noble public health dream, even if rather hazy to begin with. Run down SARS-CoV-2. Suppress it. Crush it. Or just “flatten […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Waking up to Climate Change Dinosaurs
Morning listening on October 13. Australia’s Radio National. Members of the Morrison government are doing their interview rounds with the host, Fran Kelly. We enter […]
Sportswashing at Tyneside: Saudi Arabia moves into English Football
The recent acquisition of the Newcastle United football club by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, along with financier Amanda Staveley and the billionaire Reuben brothers, […]
Blowing the Whistle at Facebook
The only surprise was that it did not come sooner. Big Tech whistleblowers are not exactly running out of the offices of Silicon Valley, so […]
Trump, Twitter and the Digital Town Hall
The merits are hard to stomach for partisans long jaundiced by presumption and dislike, but the cheer at the deplatforming of Donald Trump by a […]
Britannia Turns Back the Boats
Pushing people back across borders; turning asylum seekers away from shores. When such tactics were openly adopted and used with impunity by Australia’s navy and […]
Murderous Fantasies: The US Intelligence Effort Against Assange
If there was any reason to halt a farcical train of legal proceedings, then the case against Julian Assange would have to be the standard […]
Our Man in Washington: Morrison’s Tour of Deception
It was startling and even shocking. Away from the thrust and cut of domestic politics, not to mention noisy discord within his government’s ranks, Australian […]
Trumpism with a Biden Face: US Haitian Policy
With that orange haired brute of a president supposedly ushered out of the White House with moralising delight, the Biden administration was all keen to […]
Melbourne Quake: Shaken, Not Stirred
It began just after a news interview. Time: a quarter past nine. Morning of September 22, and yet to take a sip from the brewed […]
The Right to Clean Air in Jakarta
It seems utterly beyond debate but acknowledging legal rights to clean air has assumed the makings of a slow march over the years. The 1956 […]
The Anglo Unilateralists Strike
When President Joe Biden won the White House, he promised, with a facility of unceasing boredom, that diplomacy was back. “Diplomacy is back at the […]
Nuclear White Elephants: Australia’s New Submarine Deal
It does not get any messier or more chaotic than this. Since 2009, when Australia’s Future Submarine Program (FSP) known as Project SEA 1000, began […]
News Corp Turns Climate Change Inactivist
The faux Damascene converts have been doing the rounds in the Murdoch empire of late, stirring interest in matters green and attempting to shift, if […]
Bitcoin the Messiah: El Salvador Goes Crypto
In a particular deli store in South Melbourne, a tongue-and-cheek message is attached to the cash register. “Bitcoin accepted there,” it proclaims brightly. Naturally, it […]